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Dalit youth, father-in-law thrashed in Guj for having 'upper caste-like' moustache
The New Indian Express Kottayam
|August 16, 2025
A Dalit youth was brutally assaulted in Gujarat's Junagadh district for sporting beards and moustaches "like upper castes".
The attack, laced with casteist abuses, has triggered outrage. Police have booked two named and three unidentified accused under the SC/ST Atrocities Act, but they are on the run even four days after the incident.
This story is from the August 16, 2025 edition of The New Indian Express Kottayam.
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